Manfred Bauer (soccer player)

Manfred Bauer (March 4, 1932 - March 5, 2014 ) was a German football player . For the SC Rotation Leipzig he played from 1954 to 1963 in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football . He was a multiple B national player.

Athletic career

Manfred Bauer began his football career as a student at TG Stötteritz in 1941. Immediately after the end of the Second World War , he joined the newly founded sports club Stötteritz, where he was active until 1949. He then moved to the newly created company sports community (BSG) Erich Zeigner Leipzig (later renamed BSG Einheit Ost ), where he played his first three games in the first men's team in the 1951/52 season in the second-rate GDR league . He did not appear there until 1954, only when during the 1954/55 season the BSG Einheit Ost, which had meanwhile risen to the GDR Oberliga, was absorbed into the new SC Rotation Leipzig, Bauer also played the first seven league games for the Leipzig sports club, which he did all graduated in the second half of the season. In the 1956 season (calendar year rhythm) he was already a regular player with 25 appearances in 26 completed point games as a left defender. Bauer remained in the SC rotation as a full-back until 1960.

Between 1956 and 1960, Bauer was also used in six games of the Leipzig city selection in the international trade fair city cup . Also in 1956 he was appointed to the squad of the B national team, for which he played eight international matches until 1959.

Also in the 1961/62 season, which went back to the summer-spring season over 39 game days, he was in the league team from the 2nd to the 13th game day without interruption, but was unable to end the season due to an injury be used more. After two league appearances on the 17th and 18th matchday of the 1962/63 season, Bauer ended his career as a competitive athlete, playing 140 championship games in the GDR league within eight seasons for SC Rotation Leipzig, including three goals as a defender had achieved.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1951–1963. ISSN  0323-8628
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , p. 63.
• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. 2nd Edition. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , p. 328.
• DFSF (Ed.): DDR Chronicle - DDR Football 1949–1991 (Volumes 1–3). Berlin 2007/11.

Web links

• Manfred Bauer in the database of the German Football Association